Dan Newman has been selected as a recipient of the 2010 Early Career Achievement Award from the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management. The Research Methods Division has over 2,000 members, who primarily work in academic departments of management, psychology, and sociology. To quote from the award description,

“The Early Career Achievement award is to be given to an individual who has made distinguished contributions to research methods research, practice, and/or education during the individual's early career stage (defined as within 7 years of receiving the Ph.D). (For the 2010 award, the individual must have received his or her PhD no earlier than 2003). An eligible person will have advanced or facilitated the process of doing organizational research, thus improving the validity of conclusions drawn and inferences made from research, increasing the types of research questions that can be tested, or facilitating the education of research methods. His or her work (broadly defined, and not limited to journal publications) may address improvements in or new methods for research design, data collection, and data analysis. It may also address other aspects of research methodology (e.g., philosophy of science issues; delineation of concepts/constructs), education (e.g., development of research method courses, cases, or tools), and service (e.g., facilitating and/or participating in workshops, consistently making valuable contributions to RMNET, performing service to the Research Methods Division).”

Additionally, one of Dan's papers has received the 2010 Robert McDonald Advancement of Organizational Research Methodology Award (also from the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management). This award is given for the best article on organizational research methods published in the five year period between January 1, 2004 and December 31, 2008.

The article is:

Newman, D. A., Jacobs, R. R., & Bartram, D. (2007). Choosing the best method for local validity estimation: Relative accuracy of meta-analysis vs. a local study vs. Bayes-analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 1394-1413.

Here is the description of the award:

“All published organization-related articles and book chapters that make a significant contribution to research methodology will be eligible for this award. Eligible articles/chapters will advance the process of doing organizational research, thus improving the validity of conclusions drawn and inferences made from research or increasing the types of research questions that can be tested. Articles/chapters may address improvements in or new methods for research design, data collection, and data analysis (broadly defined). They may also address other aspects of research methodology (e.g., philosophy of science issues; delineation of concepts/constructs). Eligible articles/chapters may make sole methodological contributions or dual substantive-methodological contributions.”

Congratulations, Dan!!

Submitted July 09, 2010